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Textiles at Harvest

The ‘super-school’ screen printing course at Harvest was brilliant! After arriving with about a million designs in my pocket, I discovered we would be making ‘hand-cut’ stencils for most of the course. Doh! My ridiculously detailed designs were null and void. In the end our ‘swiss repeat multi directional’ patterns (now there’s a mouthful), placement prints and tea towel designs worked out a treat.

memphis candy – pink

memphis candy – orange

memphis candy – pink /grey

pink wren & stars

retro tea towels – black & white

retro tea towel – mustard and teal

Here’s an example of the ‘making of’ process:

Swiss repeat pattern sketch

stencil cutting

drying out stencils

hanging out finished prints

doodle drawing

tea towel artwork

artwork transparency

tea towel bg stencil

tea towel stage one

printing

tea towel drying

all in a row

The teal and mustard colours on the tea towel looked a bit ugly in the end. (They dried differently than I had thought.) Hence the black and white prints I whipped up later.